Mindanao Sanitation and Food Security Project

Dear Friend,

Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous donation to our project providing sanitation and food security especially in remote barrios. This reporting period we focused our effort in providing small-scale livelihoods by promoting the raising of ducklings by which the farmers can grow in order to provide the family with meat, eggs and if sold in the market, with good income. Ducks are easy to grow and they can be fed with left-overs from the kitchen. They can also be fed with chopped grasses and excess fruits. When fruits are in season, they are just left to rot in the fields and they are good nutritional support for the ducks. Initially we were able to disperse a total of 720 ducklings and will increase this in the coming weeks.

Again thank you very much for your generosity.

Very sincerely yours,

Cesario

Dear Friend,

Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous donation to our project providing sanitation and food security to remote communities here. Sometimes all it takes is the provision of a simple pitcher pump in order to draw water from under the ground! So this reporting period, we provided 15 pitcher pumps to 3 small family groups in one of the remote barrios here. Before providing the pump, we make sure that the water table in the place is high and that water can be easily drawn by a pump. Aside from the pump, we also provided cement and sand and gravel and the communities benefiting from the initiative provided their own labor. The families were indeed very happy because they said that by this time there is no need for them to walk several minutes in order to fetch water from a nearby creek.

Again, thank you very much for your generosity.

Very sincerely yours,

Cesario